Description: This woman is unhealthily muscled, almost every single one of her veins is visible when she is not flexing. Her shirts and pants tend to be short and undersized for her due to the difficulty of finding a good tailor. Her chestnut hair is smooth and relatively long. She is baby faced.

Personality: Soft-spoken and well mannered, she has an amazing amount of patience and a slow boiling temper. She does not believe in violence as a means to an end. She is a dedicated Herbalist but believes her peers are too gung-ho.

History: Born in the east to a Herbalist, Matilda learned a great deal about her father's area of expertise. She worked as a nervous Herbalist and found it very stressful. She's also a talented Glassblower, but doesn't like to broadcast it.

Motivation: She is unsatisfied with her job.

Ideals: Fighting, Athletic, Disciplined, Pacifist. Bonds: Attractive, Job. Occupation: Herbalist

Voice: Dark and ominous

Possessions: 800 gp. Jet (160 gp). Amethyst (160 gp). Jasper (60 gp).

Description: This man wears a simple burlap shirt and baggy pants. He conceals his rapier with his veritable burlap sack of a shirt. He is muscular with a powerful set of arms. His head has been shaved. He wears large thick round spectacles.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He has all his life been fascinated with singing.

History: Alexandre lived on a farm with his mother, near the main road leading to a nearby town. In his 18th year, while out on a day-trip, he returned to find his hometown burning and destroyed. He found his mother impaled in their home, and his father beheaded. He saw the man who walked out, and charged him in a blind rage. The man easily evaded and defeated him, leaving him to live broken and terrified. He has since lost track of the people in his past.

Motivation: Wants to raise his children well; and he is wracked by social anxiety

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Fearful. Bonds: Family. Occupation: Baker

Voice: Draws out vowels

Possessions: 700 gp.

Description: Dark and lean, she is a relatively plain woman. She is dressed in a clean tan cloak covering her clean studded leather. Her black hair is styled in orderly dreadlocks. Her hazel eyes dart from person to person.

Personality: She loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from her. She is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Human in existence. She disdains her fellow westerners, claiming they make her look unintelligent just for using an accent.

History: Joan hails from a village terrorized by orcs. When she came of age, she joined a caravan that would eventually take her to the capital. She would practice along the way and, when she arrived, be apprenticed to a Carter. She struck the Carter job and began her own company from there.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and wants to open a new tavern

Ideals: Justice. Bonds: Immigrant, Enemies, Job, Religious. Occupation: Carter

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1000 sp. Banded agate (13 gp). Moonstone (60 gp). Alexandrite (1600 gp). Rhodochrosite (13 gp).

Description: This northern woman wears a white coat over a brown low-cut shirt, and a wide-brimmed hat upon her head. Her clothes are grease stained in places. She sports brown long hair. She is very pretty but has cold, dead eyes.

Personality: She seems absolutely devoid of it. She stares off into space and will respond with overly literal and minimalist answers to questions. She is vehemently anti-magic. All of it is evil and corrupting in her opinion.

History: Born to a poor family in the city she treasured whatever gifts she got. When money was particularly tight she was walking through alleys when she overheard a Soapmaker hiring some criminals to sabotage a competitor. She made her way to the other competitor and parlayed her knowledge into a job. She left for the north, certain she would find work there.

Motivation: She seems to be bored by most things; and she is content

Ideals: Opinionated. Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Attractive. Occupation: Soapmaker

Voice: Timid voice

Possessions: 200 gp. A delicate silver chain set with a tourmaline (70 gp). Solid gold idol (500 gp). A miniature golden chest with tiny emeralds lining the top (160 gp). An ornate, electrum-trimmed steel scabbard worked in swirl-patterns (160 gp). 1 Minor magic item. 1 Minor magic item.